Engadget is reporting that it seems that Dell is preparing Apple Mac OS as an options on their computers. Could be a fake.

There are rumors that Microsoft is talking with Ebay about a possible merger. From an technology standpoint it makes sense. Ebay is a big Microsoft customer. I am not very impressed with the recent Ebay Skype merger. And I am not sure that these two giant companies will be able to prosper better together than […]

Dells acquisition of Alienware was a bit surprising but not illogical. Dell will now have an high-end line (XPS), a higher-end line (specials such as the $9930 XPS Renegade) and Alienware. Dell has over the years seen the competitors merge and then vanish, they have not ever made any major acquisitions.
Alienware will loose some street […]

Oracle has bought InnoDB which is a storage plugin used in most MySQL installations. This is an obvious attempt to slow down the transition to GNU software. Both Oracle and Microsoft are very annoyed over the gains that MySQL and PostgreSQL.
However, the the acquisition will be of little effect as there are alternatives to […]

So apparently Mr Zennström has made the deal of his life selling Skype to Ebay for up to four billion dollars in cash and stock. I am really skeptical about this merger. Skype does not have carrier grade technology and is not built on industry standards. The main attraction of Skype has been the […]

I never liked Skype. Skype is 99% hype. There are several reasons I do not like it:

It does not use standard protocols. There are perfectly fine protocols, namely SIP, that do the same thing.
There is a very high probability that it will crasch. Zennström is a dot-com crash kind of guy. He developed Kazaa.
There […]

Cisco is a company that does not develop products, instead it buys companies. One product category it is weak in is cellular infrastructure. There are no reports that Cisco is trying to buy Nokia Enterprise.
More than ten years ago another company was interested mergers, Ericsson. But that was when Ericsson was much larger than Cisco. […]